All Posts Tagged With: "McDonald’s"
Why Are Golden Arches Lightning Rods?
It is obvious that anti-globalization forces suffer from a myopic fixation on symbols rather than offering arguments based on substance. The clearest evidence of this is the widespread attacks on McDonald’s outlets and other iconic symbols of Americana. Perhaps these protesters have poor powers of observation or simply lack fertile imaginations to seek out some [...]
25Jun2010 | Christopher Lingle | 1 comment | ContinuedHow a Free Society Could Solve Global Warming
The phrase “global warming” has been around for quite some time, but in the past year it has captured the spotlight as never before. One can’t turn on the radio or open a newspaper without facing ads from “green” corporations, or hearing the latest way to reduce one’s “carbon footprint.” With even prominent Republicans (such [...]
1Oct2007 | Gene Callahan | 11 comments | ContinuedOpportunity Knocks Late
Larry Schweikart teaches history at the University of Dayton. Perhaps it is the emphasis on youth in marketing and advertising—aside from a few prescription-drug commercials these days—that creates the impression that the rich are all young or have their career paths set by age 30. In fact, however, America’s business landscape blooms with people who [...]
1Feb2003 | Larry Schweikart | 2 comments | ContinuedThe Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization
Thomas Friedman has written a very surprising book. Surprising not in what he has written, but in that Thomas Friedman wrote it. Friedman is the foreign affairs columnist for the New York Times, and is probably known to readers of Ideas on Liberty as a moderately “liberal” establishment journalist. He is certainly not known as [...]
1Aug2000 | Robert A. Lawson | 0 comments | ContinuedFreedom and Foreign Investment
James Madison is a systems analyst at an insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut. This year, as the Czech people celebrate the tenth anniversary of the end of communism, the capital city of Prague serves as a shining example of what happens when the free market displaces economic planning. Each morning on the Charles Bridge in [...]
1Dec1999 | James Madison | 1 comment | Continued-
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